Barracudas (Ripley)

Barracudas (Ripley) Ripley Court School, Rose Lane, Ripley, Woking, Surrey, GU23 6NE

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Inspection date

Previous inspection date 11 April 2018 28 July 2015

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 The strong management team is dedicated to providing high-quality care for children. Managers value the views of staff, children and their parents and consistently evaluate the quality of the services that they provide. For example, they continually review the rich and varied activities on offer and implement new ideas to help ensure children are always stimulated and have great fun.  Children have excellent opportunities to extend on their skills and knowledge, and rapidly build on these. For example, they develop excellent hand-eye coordination as they learn how to safely take part in fencing lessons. They concentrate extremely well and listen attentively to staff's instructions.  Staff are well qualified and extremely skilled. They create a safe, child-friendly environment and are highly observant of children's well-being and safety. Children have excellent relationships with staff. They show high levels of confidence and are

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This provision is outstanding

extremely well behaved.  Parents speak extremely highly about the service provided. They say that their children always ask to attend and they have tremendous fun.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

 extend and embed the extremely good partnership working with the host school to other providers children also attend to maintain and develop this at the highest level.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the activities indoors and outdoors. She observed the interactions between the children and the staff.  The inspector spoke to members of the management team, staff and children at appropriate times. She engaged in children's play.  The inspector carried out a joint observation with one of the managers and discussed the activities provided.  The inspector held discussions with the management team. She looked at relevant documentation, such as the safeguarding policy, risk assessments and evidence of the suitability of staff working with the children.  The inspector spoke to parents and took account of their views.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The management team is extremely competent and knowledgeable. It focuses on preparation and training for staff, which has a significant impact on how they all work extremely well together. Staff value the training that they receive, such as the thorough inductions and the comprehensive booklets which contain a wealth of information to help them fulfil their roles. Arrangements for safeguarding are effective. Staff demonstrate an excellent understanding of their responsibility to protect children. There are robust recruitment procedures to help ensure the suitability of staff. The regular monitoring of staff performance leads to a high level of consistent practice. The managers value the wide range of skills children achieve and share this information with professionals from the host school. They have identified that they would like to extend this partnership working to other schools where children attend.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The enthusiastic staff engage positively with children to help them reach their full potential. Several of them have experience of working with children, such as through their roles as trainee teachers. Staff plan activities related to topics and children's interests, such as sport activities, drama, and arts and crafts. They are very mindful of supporting children's ongoing formal learning at school. Staff instinctively know when to intervene to support and extend children's thoughts and ideas. They successfully help them to become deeply involved in their chosen activities. For example, staff engage children in superb discussions about planets and how scientists measure the size of planets. Children excitingly contribute to the discussions and continue to make detailed drawings and models related to the topic. This contributes to children's increasing vocabulary and their understanding about the wider world.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Staff provide children with a friendly welcome and effectively help new children to quickly feel secure. Children rapidly engage in play and happily make new friends. Staff provide children with plenty of opportunities to express their own preferences throughout the day. This helps children to develop a strong sense of ownership at the camp. Since the last inspection, staff have made positive changes to ensure waiting times for popular activities, such as go-karts, are reduced and consistently well used. They now also offer children an additional activity or game while waiting for their turn. This has a significant impact on children's positive engagement. Children are encouraged to develop a healthy lifestyle. Staff provide rewards, such as stickers, for choosing healthy options for their snack. Children have ample opportunities to build on and extend their physical skills. For example, they delight in their achievements during tennis games and enjoy regular visits

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

to the woods where they work together to build dens.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY407224 Local authority Surrey Inspection number 1130716 Type of provision Out of school provision Day care type Childcare - Non-Domestic Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 4 - 8 Total number of places 240 Number of children on roll 152 Name of registered person Young World Leisure Group Limited

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Date of previous inspection 28 July 2015 Telephone number 0845 123 5299

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Barracudas (Ripley) registered in 2010. It is one of several holiday camps run by Young World Leisure Group Limited. It operates from Ripley Court School in Woking, Surrey. It is open Monday to Friday during the Easter and summer school holiday periods. Opening hours are from 8am to 6pm. The camp employs 24 members of staff. They all hold appropriate qualifications at level 3 or above. Lifeguards and specialist sports instructors are also employed.

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This inspection was carried out by Ofsted under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children’s learning, development and care, known as the early years foundation stage.

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